When President Barack Obama designated Bears Ears in Utah a National Monument he ruffled some feathers. Utah Republicans like Sen. Orrin Hatch made their usual statements about executive overreach and other such things that they would subsequently walk back the moment Donald Trump took office. America’s Renfield, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has been working to get this decision reversed. The chair of the House Oversight committee hasn’t been able to find the strength or time to investigate the clearly alarming conflicts of interest between Trump or any number of Trump’s cabinet and foreign leaders, but he knows how badly he wants to sell off public land. Back when President Obama announced Bears Ears National Monument, the Bryce Canyon twitter page posted this enthusiastic show of support.
Fun, right? Not fun for crime dog Chaffetz who sent an angry letter to the Bryce Canyon superintendent.
"The White House is telling the governor as well as the congressional offices that no decisions had been made — that it was still an open question — so how is it [Bryce Canyon National Park officials] were already ready to go with that information?" Chaffetz asked Tuesday. "The timing is serious."
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Chaffetz said in an interview that the questions about Bryce Canyon's tweet are at the "very bottom of the list" of investigations he's launched as oversight committee chairman, but he noted he couldn't ignore the message from the national park because it could indicate the Obama White House misled Utah's elected officials.
"Maybe they were just hopeful," Chaffetz said, "but they regularly complain about lack of resources and more money for maintenance budgets and this is a small item but I want to know if there was communication and were they being truthful with the governor and the delegation."
This is the guy that won’t investigate Donald Trump campaign team’s numerous ties to Russia, the botched Navy Seal raid in Yemen, or anything remotely worth providing oversight for. When the history books write up Rep. Chaffetz’s last few years of operating in our government, people will just shake their heads and go “wow, what a piece of blarg.”*
*Blarg is my future word for something very inappropriate.